Docker containers are fast apropos a go-to record for building and using distributed applications. Every vital cloud businessman has gotten behind a Docker project over a final few months and Docker.io itself recently raised $15 million in a Series B turn to continue expanding a services around a platform.

Despite all of this support, handling Docker containers can still be a con during times, so a month ago, Google launched a Kubernetes project formed on a work with containers in a possess large information centers. All of them will actively minister to a projects.

“Each association brings singular strengths, and together we will safeguard that Kubernetes is a clever and open enclosure government horizon for any focus and in any sourroundings – either in a private, open or hybrid cloud,” Google comparison VP Urs Hölzle pronounced in a proclamation today.

The thought behind containers is that developers can some-more simply muster and scale their applications on opposite servers and in opposite clouds, so Microsoft — or Microsoft Open Technologies, to be accurate – promises that it will support Kubernetes in Linux environments on a Azure platform. Microsoft will also work on ancillary libswarm, a apart Docker-backed project, for component network services on Azure, too. Docker itself will work on aligning libswarm with a Kubernetes framework.

Red Hat promises that it will move Kubernetes to a hybrid cloud and IBM says it will minister formula to this project and a Docker ecosystem in ubiquitous “to safeguard that containers are enterprise-grade, and is operative with a village to emanate an open governance indication around a project.”

MesoSphere, CoreOS and SaltStack will work on integrating Kubernetes with their possess technologies. MesoSphere, that started ancillary Docker late final year, will work on bringing a scheduling and government capabilities to Kubernetes customers, for example. As a CoreOS organisation tells me, Kubernetes already uses a CoreOS’s etcd key value store that forms a fortitude of CoreOS’s clusters.

Overall, this seems like good news for a Docker project. Everybody on this list of Kubernetes backers was already ancillary Docker in some form before, though removing this organisation of companies together to combine in a Docker ecosystem can usually assistance a adoption (and might spell difficulty for other virtualization technologies in a prolonged run).